ELN guerrilla in the Apurimac River Valley
ELN guerrilla led by Héctor Béjar in 1965 in the Apurímac River Valley that disrupted the existing order in the province of La Mar, Ayacucho.
The first important event that affected the Apurímac River Valley was the 1965 guerrilla war, led by a group of the ELN headed by Héctor Béjar. This guerrilla definitely disrupted the existing order in the province of La Mar. The process of land appropriation accelerated later with the application of the Agrarian Reform Law. The 1965 guerrilla war was one of the two significant historical events that marked the area before the internal armed conflict of the 1980s.